Functional Organic Materials – Syntheses, Strategies and Applications

Thomas J. J. Muller received his PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, Germany, in 1992. After a postdoctoral stay at the Stanford University in Palo Alto, USA, he moved to the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and later back to the LMU where he finished his Habilitation in 2000. In 2002 he became Professor for Organic Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and currently he is Professor at the University of Dusseldorf, Germany. He is interested in the synthetic, methodological and physical chemical development of heterocyclic chemistry and its implications in medicinal chemistry, materials science and nanotechnology. Uwe H. F. Bunz received his PhD at the LMU in Munich, Germany, in 1990. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of California in Berkeley, USA, he went to the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Science in Mainz, Germany, as a Research Associate and habilitated at the Univeristy of Mainz in 1997. He became Professor of Chemistry at the University of South Carolina, USA and currently he is Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, working on alkyne chemistry, polymer chemistry, chemistry of carbon rich materials, sugar and carbohydrate chemistry.

PART I: 3-D-CARBORICH PI-SYSTEMS - NANOTUBES AND SEGMENTS Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes Cyclophenacene Cut Out of Fullerene PART II: STRATEGIC ADVANCES IN CHROMOPHORE AND MATERIALS SYNTHESES Swivel Cruciforms Design of pi-Conjugated Systems Using Organophosphorous Building Blocks Diversity Oriented Synthesis of Chromophores by Combinatorial Strategies and Multi-component Reactions High-yield Synthesis of Shape-persistent Phenylene-Ethynylene Macrocycles Self-Assembly Strategies towards Multifunctional Materials PART III: MOLECULAR MUSCLES, SWITCHES AND ELECTRONICS Molecular Motors and Muscles Diarylethene as a Photoswitching Unit of Intramolecular Magnetic Interaction Thiol End-capped Molecules for Molecular Electronics: Synthetic Methods, Molecular Junctions, and Structure-Property Relationships Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials PART IV: ELECTRONIC INTERACTION AND STRUCTURE Photoinduced Electron Transfer Processes in Synthetically Modified DNA Electron Transfer of pi-Functional Systems and Applications Induced pi-Stacking in Acenes Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Chiral Conjugated Materials